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• catalog abstract ""Like a magic potion, Italianita has seeped through the stream of American aesthetic consciousness ever since Benjamin West stepped onto Italian soil in 1760. The first period of this artistic phenomenon was investigated in The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860 and the book at hand thus continues this intellectual exploration in its development during the following sixty years. Those decades between the Civil War and World War I brought to a climax the growing sense of American continental nationhood, and this strengthened perception of national identity was reflected in American art. A synthesis was achieved in which American values and images were fused with the great tradition flowing from its Italian source." "Among the themes that arise from this examination of the role that Italy played in shaping American art is first and foremost the struggle to resolve the issue of what American art ought to express: our European heritage or our cultural independence. This question penetrates to the heart of the most widely debated topic in present-day American culture - multiculturalism. The reader may well find previously unconsidered relationships between our past and present, and may be led to reconsider problems posed by the conflicting needs of unity and diversity in our nation. Other themes that appear in these essays deal with the development of American wealth and its role in influencing the taste of the period, and with feminism. In these pages it will be noticed how very closely American art mirrors the American Experience. While all art reflects the cultural context in which it is created, the nature of American art, predominantly Romantic-Realism, makes the link between idea and image particularly visible. What becomes evident is that "the Italian presence" was almost never a simple matter of direct influence; rather it was an experience for American artists that afforded them, above all, insight and inspiration. Italy was America's muse."--Jacket".
• catalog contributor b10233471.
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description ""Like a magic potion, Italianita has seeped through the stream of American aesthetic consciousness ever since Benjamin West stepped onto Italian soil in 1760. The first period of this artistic phenomenon was investigated in The Italian Presence in American Art, 1760-1860 and the book at hand thus continues this intellectual exploration in its development during the following sixty years. Those decades between the Civil War and World War I brought to a climax the growing sense of American continental nationhood, and this strengthened perception of national identity was reflected in American art. A synthesis was achieved in which American values and images were fused with the great tradition flowing from its Italian source." "Among the themes that arise from this examination of the role that Italy played in shaping American art is first and foremost the struggle to resolve the issue of what American art ought to express: our European heritage or our cultural independence. This question penetrates to the heart of the most widely debated topic in present-day American culture - multiculturalism. The reader may well find previously unconsidered relationships between our past and present, and may be led to reconsider problems posed by the conflicting needs of unity and diversity in our nation. Other themes that appear in these essays deal with the development of American wealth and its role in influencing the taste of the period, and with feminism. In these pages it will be noticed how very closely American art mirrors the American Experience. While all art reflects the cultural context in which it is created, the nature of American art, predominantly Romantic-Realism, makes the link between idea and image particularly visible. What becomes evident is that "the Italian presence" was almost never a simple matter of direct influence; rather it was an experience for American artists that afforded them, above all, insight and inspiration. Italy was America's muse."--Jacket".
• catalog description "Celebrating Botticelli : the taste for the Italian Renaissance in the United States, 1870-1920 / Lillian B. Miller -- Frederic Edwin Church and Italy / Gerald L. Carr -- Inness and Italy / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- John H. Twachtman : a "modern" in Venice, 1877-1878 / Lisa N. Peters -- The murals by Constantino Brumidi for the United States Capital Rotunda, 1860-1880 : an iconographic interpretation / Francis V. O'Connor -- Italian inspiration in Maitland Armstrong's stained glass and mosaics / Robert O. Jones -- H. Siddons Mowbray : murals of the American Renaissance / Richard Murray --American "high" renaissance : Bowdoin's Walker art building and its murals / H. Barbara Weinberg -- American memorial sculpture and the Protestant cemetery in Rome / William H. Gerdts -- In the Tuscan mode : Italian influences on the architecture of Cass Gilbert / Timothy Rub -- Stanford White and Italy / Paul R. Baker -- From the Pio-Clementino to museums of fine arts : the Italian presence in American museum design, 1860-1920 / Helen Searing -- Lizzie Boott at Bellosguardo / Carol M. Osborne -- From private grief to public monument : the funerary effigy of Elizabeth Boot Duveneck / Lois Dinnerstein -- Rome and the American Academy : art Mecca or artistic backwater? / Susan Rather -- The old boy network in Rome : Tenth Street studio artists abroad / Annette Blaugrund -- The Italian garden in America, 1890s-1920s / Margherita Azzi Visentini.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 265 p., 16 p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0823213420".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Fordham University Press ; Roma : Istituo della enciclopedia italian,".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "Art, American 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Art, American 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Art, American Italian influences.".
• catalog subject "Art, American.".
• catalog subject "Art, Modern 19th century United States.".
• catalog subject "N6510 .I8 1992".
• catalog tableOfContents "Celebrating Botticelli : the taste for the Italian Renaissance in the United States, 1870-1920 / Lillian B. Miller -- Frederic Edwin Church and Italy / Gerald L. Carr -- Inness and Italy / Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. -- John H. Twachtman : a "modern" in Venice, 1877-1878 / Lisa N. Peters -- The murals by Constantino Brumidi for the United States Capital Rotunda, 1860-1880 : an iconographic interpretation / Francis V. O'Connor -- Italian inspiration in Maitland Armstrong's stained glass and mosaics / Robert O. Jones -- H. Siddons Mowbray : murals of the American Renaissance / Richard Murray --American "high" renaissance : Bowdoin's Walker art building and its murals / H. Barbara Weinberg -- American memorial sculpture and the Protestant cemetery in Rome / William H. Gerdts -- In the Tuscan mode : Italian influences on the architecture of Cass Gilbert / Timothy Rub -- Stanford White and Italy / Paul R. Baker -- From the Pio-Clementino to museums of fine arts : the Italian presence in American museum design, 1860-1920 / Helen Searing -- Lizzie Boott at Bellosguardo / Carol M. Osborne -- From private grief to public monument : the funerary effigy of Elizabeth Boot Duveneck / Lois Dinnerstein -- Rome and the American Academy : art Mecca or artistic backwater? / Susan Rather -- The old boy network in Rome : Tenth Street studio artists abroad / Annette Blaugrund -- The Italian garden in America, 1890s-1920s / Margherita Azzi Visentini.".
• catalog title "The Italian presence in American art, 1860-1920 / edited by Irma B. Jaffe.".
• catalog type "text".